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Sterculia cochinchinensis is a tree from the mallow family (Malvaceae), native to Indo-China, including Laos and Vietnam. It is a forest tree of wet tropical climates and is not a common garden or houseplant.
Sterculia cochinchinensis is a tree species belonging to the genus Sterculia in the family Malvaceae. The name is unresolved according to The Plant List. This species is found in Laos and Vietnam (where it is known as trôm nam [sảng]) and there are no subspecies listed in the Catalogue of Life.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sterculia cochinchinensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
